Full-service design firm RDC, has opened offices in San Diego at 101 West Broadway in downtown San Diego, and has named RDC Principal Sean Slater, AIA, as Principal-In-Charge of the new office, RDC CEO Brad Williams, AIA has announced.
“A diverse client base has drawn us to San Diego, and we have had numerous staff regularly making the trip from Long Beach,” Williams said. “Sean loved the idea of making a life in San Diego, so this has been a natural evolution for our firm. We are confident in Sean and excited for him to have this role of growing a design office for RDC in San Diego.”
RDC is providing architecture and landscape architecture for the renovation of regional retail destination Fashion Valley. Rendering courtesy of RDC.
Under the leadership of Slater and RDC Senior Principal Mitra Esfandiari, AIA, the design staff at the firm’s Long Beach headquarters has created a portfolio of San Diego projects that includes the multi-phase repositioning of Del Mar Highlands Town Center, the redevelopment of Horton Plaza, renovations at Fashion Valley Mall, new mixed-use at Costa Verde Center, and several new high-rise multifamily communities in early planning phases.
“We are enthusiastic about San Diego, with its natural assets, human capital, and disposition toward continuing to evolve as a world leader in livable cities. Currently our firm’s San Diego portfolio would rank the new RDC office as among the largest design firms in the city,” Slater noted.
RDC is architect of record (working with RIOS) of Horton. Preliminary design images courtesy of Stockdale Capital Partners.
“RDC’s national staff will collaborate with the RDC San Diego office and with our partner teams Studio One Eleven and Fathom,” Esfandiari said. “The future of RDC in San Diego is exciting for our entire firm.”
RDC Principal Sean Slater, AIA, is Principal-In-Charge of the new San Diego office. Photo courtesy of RDC.
Slater is a registered architect in numerous states and has over 25 years of practicing architecture in Los Angeles, Berkeley, Atlanta and Austin. He has been a leader at nationally recognized firms including ELS Architecture and Urban Design, tvsdesign and spent five years directing his own firm. Sean is sought after for thought leadership and was honored with the Urban Land Institute’s prestigious Apgar Award for co-authoring “New Suburbanism: Reinventing Inner-Ring Suburbs” and his article “Crafting Authenticity,” a cover story in Urban Land magazine.
